Red Space Rocket

Just to remind you of some key points

1. Your talk will go for no less than four minutes.

2. Your talk must be about an issue related to the concept of family.

3. Everyone will present this Wednesday. Student who do not present a satisfactory talk on Wednesday will have a chance to re-present their talk in our single session on Thursday.

4. You can use prompts, but you cannot simply read out your speech.

5. You can use supporting material such as a PowerPoint presentation, music, video, or a physical prop.

6. Practice your talk.

7. Practice your talk.

8. Practice your talk.

In Morphing English, we have talked a little about my list of favourite words. I think that might have told you that this list was around seventy words long.

This was purely a guess and, as it happens, I was out my a bit.

Here is my current list of words that really like.

Well here we are, almost at the end of this subject. I hope you have had some fun and have picked up some English skills and knowledge.

On Tuesday, you will have the double session to write the final version of your Donnie Dark essay. I will collect these essays at the end of class.

On Thursday, we will do a little more work on Australian English.

On Friday, we will watch a really interesting documentary called The Sound of Aus. We will also look at our own video, which will give us some clues about what type of Australian English we speak.

In this second-to-last week of Semester, you will complete researching and writing your four-to-six minute talk about family.

On Monday, you will have two sessions in a computer room to research and write your talk.

On Wednesday, everyone will present their talk to the class. I will provide my laptop and the speakers, if any of you want to use extra materials to support your talk.

On Thursday, well, let’s see how the world looks then.

In this second last week of semester, we will finally watch the film that we will study.

On Monday, we will watch all 104 minutes of Transporter 3.

On Tuesday, we will work out what goes into both long and short film reviews.

On Wednesday, we will watch the film again and make notes to go into our reviews.

You will write a long and short review of this film last week as you final task for this Power of English unit.

Sadly, it look as if we won’t get to do that debating that I was keen to do. Maybe in the next life, Jack.

On Monday, you will have time to prepare your talk about your chosen song and rhetorical techniques.

On Tuesday, you will rehearse a little.

On Wednesday, everyone will be presenting their talks.

Sound pretty easily when I put it like that.

On Monday, we will be writing a language analysis essay in response to one news article. This is practice for the assessment piece on Wednesday afternoon.

On Wednesday, you will complete a language analysis essay in response to a particular article. This one will be under test conditions and is a formal assessment piece.

On Thursday, you will start preparing your talk about an issue relating to family. Next week, you’ll have some more time to prepare and rehearse and then you’ll deliver your talk.

This week you will be drafting your Donnie Darko essays and then writing a good and final copy. I expect that this will take us all of our five sessions together this week.

How does the Head Over Heels sequence in Donnie Darko tell the viewer about the characters and themes in this story?

And, while I am at it, I love Taylor’s story about the bela knabino.

You can count me as pro-Bob.

Good work, Tomb.

This week, we will start off on Monday talking about what makes a good talk. If you happen to miss class, you might like to look through this brief presentation.

After fleshing out those ideas, you will be writing and presenting a two-minute talk called My Family.

The idea is to do all the right things and to avoid common errors.

On Wednesday, we will be working more on our language analysis skills, particularly as they relate to persuasive language. I expect that I will bring in some news articles and you will read them and identify the following.

The author
The publication details
The contention (this will be our main focus)

On Thursday, we will do something else about this type of language analysis. I just hadn’t decided exactly what that will be yet.

Since a couple of my classes this week are working towards an oral presentation, I thought you might find this presentation interesting. I think it makes some really interesting and valid points.

This week, you will be drafting then completing a final version of your Donnie Darko essay.

Here is the question.

How does the Head Over Heels sequence in Donnie Darko tell the viewer about the characters and themes in this story?

And here is the structure of the essay that you will be writing.

It’s all pretty simple and, of course, I will be there to boss you around and help you.

On Monday, and I may have never mentioned this before, you will have a test about rhetorical techniques. There will be twenty-three questions and fifty possible points. You will have forty minutes to complete this test.

After that, you will start writing up your rhetorical analysis of your chosen pop song.

On Tuesday, we will discuss what makes an effective talk.

On Wednesday, you will complete writing your rhetorical analysis. If we have time, some of you might even present your talks. I know that most of you don’t like speaking in front of the class, but speaking in front of people is an important skill.